grillovsstatusWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: grillo is a noun, status is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“grillo” is a noun and “status” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#48,193
“grillo” frequency rank
#2,518
“status” frequency rank
50711
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature grillo status
Definition die Grille Konditional Aktiv des Verbs stati

Letter map: grillo vs status

Shared letters muted; letters that set grillo and status apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

6 ch
grillo
6 ch
status

Grammar separator: grillo vs status

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: grillo is anoun and statusaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 6 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50711, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

grillo is recorded at frequency rank #48,193, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. status is at rank #2,518, tagged as averb, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 50711, this pair ranks #1,163,385 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of grillo vs status

Shared letters: none. Private to "grillo": gilor. Private to "status": astu.

"grillo" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCV  ·  "status" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • grilloggrillo · girllo · grilo · grilol · grlilo · grrillo · rgillo
  • statussattus · sstatus · statsu · stattus · statuss · stauts · sttatus · sttaus

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "grillo" and "status" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "grillo" is a noun and "status" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "grillo" or "status" show up more?
"status" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,518 in our German list, against #48,193 for "grillo". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "grillo" and "status".

  • Full dictionary entry for "grillo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "status" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,163,385 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "grillo" and "status" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "grillo vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,163,385 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list